Episode 73: 7.21 “Reading is Fundamental,” 7.22 “There Will Be Blood,” and 7.23 “Survival of the Fittest”

<p>Welcome back to Word of God! We are: Ash (the old-time fan), Emma (the latecomer), and Wyatt (the newbie). We're digesting this show in chunks of about two episodes a week.</p> <p>Today we talk about 7.21 "Reading is Fundamental," 7.22 "There Will Be Blood," and 7.23 "Survival of the Fittest."</p> <p>Show Notes (also <a href='https://www.tumblr.com/wordofgodcast/715720351246581761/episode-73-721-reading-is-fundamental-722'>here</a> on tumblr):</p> <p>Content warnings for this episode are <a href='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ES4zWo11VMWMLJkj31ZYqGZT0xgKsgxydrbTpqV42Ew/edit?usp=sharing'>here</a>.</p> <p class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-multi-selected wp-block-paragraph rich-text" style="white-space:pre-wrap;min-width:1px;">Sources for references made this episode:</p> <ul class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-multi-selected wp-block-list rich-text" style="white-space:pre-wrap;min-width:1px;"><li><a href='https://www.tumblr.com/thursdayngel/714717879186161664'>video of Misha at njcon</a>, posted by @sunglassesmish, transcript added by @samdyke</li> <li><a href='https://fanlore.org/wiki/Twist_and_Shout'>"Twist and Shout" fanlore page</a></li> <li><a href='https://www.tumblr.com/thursdayngel/tagged/classic'>Emma's archival blog's collection of classic-era posts</a></li> <li><a href='https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/645931399846739968/the-most-convincing-evidence-to-me-personally-of'>Jerry Wanek's beer symbolism discourse</a> over the use of El Sol in the finale; original post by a moved/deactivated blog, additions by @deanisbisexual, @chiisana-sukima, and @trisscar368</li> <li><a href='https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/870387044814290975/1097256747057557614/giphy.gif'>"it's a cookbook!" gif</a></li> <li><a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/z1cx2f/rapture_oc/'>Adam Ellis (adamtots)'s "Rapture" comic</a></li> </ul> <p>Check our<a href='https://wordofgodcast.tumblr.com/listen'> Listen page</a>